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Life of Pi
Martel, Yann
After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, one solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific.The crew of the surviving vessel consists of a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orang-utan, a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger and Pi - a 16-year-old Indian boy.The scene is set for one of the most extraordinary pieces of literary fiction of recent years. Yann Martel's Life of Pi is a transformative novel, a dazzling work of imagination that will delight and astound readers in equal measure. It is a triumph of storytelling and a tale that will, as one character puts it, make you believe in God.20x13cm,324 pages.
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The Namesake
Lahiri, Jhumpa
'When her grandmother learned of Ashima's pregnancy, she was particularly thrilled at the prospect of naming the family's first sahib. And so Ashima and Ashoke have agreed to put off the decision of what to name the baby until a letter comes…'
For now, the label on his hospital cot reads simply BABY BOY GANGULI. But as time passes and still no letter arrives from India, American bureaucracy takes over and demands that 'baby boy Ganguli' be given a name. In a panic, his father decides to nickname him 'Gogol' – after his favourite writer.
Brought up as an Indian in suburban America, Gogol Ganguli soon finds himself itching to cast off his awkward name, just as he longs to leave behind the inherited values of his Bengali parents. And so he sets off on his own path through life, a path strewn with conflicting loyalties, love and loss…
Spanning three decades and crossing continents, Jhumpa Lahiri's much-anticipated first novel is a triumph of humane story-telling. Elegant, subtle and moving, The Namesake is for everyone who loved the clarity, sympathy and grace of Lahiri's Pulitzer Prize-winning debut story collection, Interpreter of Maladies. ‘Extraordinary…a book that spins gold out of the straw of ordinary lives. The calm, pellucid grace of her prose, the sustained stretch of crystal clear writing, its elegant pianissimo tone, pulls the reader from beginning to end in one neat arc. Every detail, every observation, every sentence rings with the clarity of truth. The Namesake is a novel that makes its reader feel privileged to be allowed access to its immensely empathetic world.' The Times. 'Impeccably written' Daily Mail.
'Gracious….in refined, empathetic prose…each of Lahiri's characters patches together their own identity, making this resonant fable neither uniquely Asian nor uniquely American, but tenderly, wryly human.' Hephzibah Anderson, The Observer.
‘This is certainly a novel that explores the concepts of cultural identity, of rootlessness, of tradition and familial expectation…but …it never succumbs to the cliches those themes so often entail. Instead, Lahiri turns it into something both larger and simpler: the story of a man and his family, of his life and hopes, loves and sorrows. She has a talent – magical, sly, cumulative – that most writers would kill for.’ Julie Myerson, The Guardian.
‘Jhumpa Lahiri’s excellent first novel… is the work of a fine writer, discriminating, compassionate and surprising. It is, too, a story for our times.’ Rachel Cusk, Evening Standard.
‘A joy to read.’ Sunday Telegraph. 20x13cm, 291 pages.
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Teacher Man
McCourt, Frank
Nearly a decade ago Frank McCourt became an unlikely star when, at the age of sixty-six, he burst onto the literary scene with Angela's Ashes, the Pulitzer Prize -- winning memoir of his childhood in Limerick, Ireland. Then came 'Tis, his glorious account of his early years in New York.
Now, here at last, is McCourt's long-awaited book about how his thirty-year teaching career shaped his second act as a writer. Teacher Man is also an urgent tribute to teachers everywhere. In bold and spirited prose featuring his irreverent wit and heartbreaking honesty, McCourt records the trials, triumphs and surprises he faces in public high schools around New York City. His methods anything but conventional, McCourt creates a lasting impact on his students through imaginative assignments (he instructs one class to write "An Excuse Note from Adam or Eve to God"), singalongs (featuring recipe ingredients as lyrics), and field trips (imagine taking twenty-nine rowdy girls to a movie in Times Square!).
McCourt struggles to find his way in the classroom and spends his evenings drinking with writers and dreaming of one day putting his own story to paper. Teacher Man shows McCourt developing his unparalleled ability to tell a great story as, five days a week, five periods per day, he works to gain the attention and respect of unruly, hormonally charged or indifferent adolescents. McCourt's rocky marriage, his failed attempt to get a Ph.D. at Trinity College, Dublin, and his repeated firings due to his propensity to talk back to his superiors ironically lead him to New York's most prestigious school, Stuyvesant High School, where he finally finds a place and a voice. "Doggedness," he says, is "not as glamorous as ambition or talent or intellect or charm, but still the one thing that got me through the days and nights."
For McCourt, storytelling itself is the source of salvation, and in Teacher Man the journey to redemption -- and literary fame -- is an exhilarating adventure. 23x15cm, 257 pages.
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The Selected Works of Joseph Conrad
Conrad, Joseph
Lord Jim, first published in 1900, confirmed Conrad's place in literature as one of the first 'modernists' of English letters. Set in the Malay Archipelago, not only does the novel provide a gripping account of maritime adventure and romance, but also an exotic tale of the East.
Nostromo is the only man capable of the decisive action needed to save the silver of the San Tome mine and secure independence for Sulaco, Occidental Province of the Latin American state of Costaguana. Is his integrity as unassailable as everyone believes, or will his ideals, like those which have inspired the struggling state itself, buckle under economic and political pressure?
The Secret Agent, Conrad's story of espionage and anarchists, tells of Winnie Verloc and her devotion to her peculiar and simple-minded brother, Stevie. Its savagely witty themes of human absurdity and misunderstanding are written in an ironic style that provokes both laughter and unease. This volume also includes a selection of Conrad's matchless short stories - Youth, Typhoon, Heart of Darkness, The End of the Tether and The Shadow-Line. 20x13cm, 1376 pages.
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Playing with the Grown-ups
Dahl, Sophie
The first full-length novel from the international supermodel and granddaughter of Roald Dahl.
Kitty’s mother, Marina, is both utterly beguiling and terrifyingly embarrassing, and more often than not Kitty can only gaze on her antics with awe and toe-curling trepidation. But as Kitty grows up it becomes clear that perhaps Marina isn’t the most exemplary of parents, and that sometimes a girl might have to put herself first. Sophie Dahl writes with a keen eye, a warm heart and wonderful lyricism about a coming-of-age that’s quite unlike any other. 20x13cm, 299 pages.
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Everyman
Roth, Philip
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Pastorale (and also the winner of two National Book Awards and two National Book Critics Circle Awards, amid a long roster of major awards), Philip Roth earned his third PEN/Faulkner Award for this novel inspired by the 15th-century allegory Everyman. The fate of Roth's everyman is traced from his first shocking confrontation with death on the idyllic beaches of his childhood, through the family trials and professional achievements of his vigorous adulthood, and into his old age, as he observes the deterioration of his contemporaries and is stalked by his own physical woes, hoping to somehow escape his own mortality. 20x13cm, 182 pages.
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Small Island
Levy, Andrea
It is 1948, and England is recovering from a war. But at 21 Nevern Street, London, the conflict has only just begun. Queenie Bligh?s neighbours do not approve when she agrees to take in Jamaican lodgers, but Queenie doesn?t know when her husband will return, or if he will come back at all. What else can she do? Gilbert Joseph was one of the several thousand Jamaican men who joined the RAF to fight against Hitler. Returning to England as a civilian he finds himself treated very differently. It?s desperation that makes him remember a wartime friendship with Queenie and knock at her door. Gilbert?s wife Hortense, too, had longed to leave Jamaica and start a better life in England. But when she joins him she is shocked to find London shabby, decrepit, and far from the golden city of her dreams. Even Gilbert is not the man she thought he was. ----- ?A terrific book? Alan Plater; ?Wonderful...seamless...a magnificent achievement? Linda Grant; ?A cracking good read...I think what appealed to me most was the passion and anger in the writing all the way through, yet it was always leavened with a particularly wry sort of humour ? the sort that, tho? you find yourself smiling, you at the same time realise you almost shouldn?t be? Margaret Forster; ?I enjoyed SMALL ISLAND enormously and wish it every success. It conjures up so vividly the era of the 1940?s and expresses so vividly through the lives of its four protagonists the conflicts and racist attitudes that existed at that time. A wonderful insight into a little understood period? Joan Bakewell; ?It is a work of great imaginative power? Linton Kwesi Johnson. ------ Andrea Levy was born in England to Jamaican parents. Her radio appearances, and readings at literary festivals, bookshops and libraries have helped her to build an enthusiastic following. Andrea is the winner of the 2004 Orange Prize for Fiction. 18x11cm, 533 pages.
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The French Lieutenant's Woman
Fowles, John
Of all John Fowles' novels The French Lieutenant's Woman received the most universal acclaim and today holds a very special place in the canon of post-war English literature. From the god-like stance of the nineteenth-century novelist that he both assumes and gently mocks, to the last detail of dress, idiom and manners, his book is an immaculate recreation of Victorian England. Not only is it the epic love story of two people of insight and imagination seeking escape from the cant and tyranny of their age, The French Lieutenant's Woman is also a brilliantly sustained allegory of the decline of the twentieth-century passion for freedom.
20x13cm, 480 pages.
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Midnight's Children
Rushdie, Salman
Salman Rushdie's 1981 Booker Prize-winning novel and 1993 Booker of Bookers winner. Born at the midnight of India's independence, Saleem is "handcuffed to history" by the coincidence. He is one of 1001 children born that midnight, each of them endowed with an extraordinary talent.
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Northern Lights - Filmed as The Golden Compass
Pullman, Philip
There are worlds beyond our own - the Compass will show the way... The first novel in Philip Pullman's epic His Dark Materials trilogy is now the stunning motion picture - The Golden Compass , made by New Line Cinema and Scholastic Media. When Lyra is given the strange and secret alethiometer, she begins an extraordinary journey that will take her to the frozen lands of the Arctic, where witch-clans reign and ice-bears fight. The destiny that awaits her will have immeasurable consequences far beyond her own world... 20x13cm, 397 pages.
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Invisible
Auster, Paul
New York City, Spring 1967: Twenty-year-old Adam Walker, an aspiring poet and student at Columbia University, meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born, and his silent and seductive girlfriend Margot. Falling into a passionate affair with Margot, Walker soon finds himself caught in a perverse triangle that leads to a sudden, shocking act of violence that will alter the course of his life.
Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, Invisible is told by three different narrators as it travels in time from 1967 to 2007 and moves from New York to Paris and to a remote Caribbean island, in a story of unbridled sexual hunger and a relentless quest for justice.
With uncompromising insight, Auster takes us to the shadowy borderland between truth and memory, authorship and identity, to produce a work of unforgettable power that confirms his reputation as one of America's most spectacularly inventive writers. 24x16cm, 304 pages.
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Imperial Austria - Treasures of Art, Arms & Armour from the State of Styria
Krenn Peter; Karcheski, Walter
29x22cm, beautifully illustrated, 133 pages.
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Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices
Hall, Stuart
This broad-ranging text offers a comprehensive treatment of how visual images, language and discourse work as 'systems of representation'. Individual chapters explain a variety of approaches to representation, bringing to bear concepts from semiotic, discursive, psychoanalytic, anthropological, sociological, feminist, art-historical and Foucauldian models of representation. They explore representation as a signifying practice in a rich diversity of social contexts and institutional sites: the use of photography in the construction of national identity and culture; the poetics and politics of exhibiting other cultures in ethnographic museums; fantasies of 'the racialized Other' in popular media, film and image; the construction of masculine identities in discourses of consumer culture and advertising; the gendering of narratives in television soap operas. The book discusses contested and critical questions of meaning, truth, knowledge and power in representation, and the relations between representation, pleasure and fantasy. Combining illustrative examples with activities and selected readings, accessible but not simplified, it offers a unique resource for teachers and students in cultural studies and related fields as an introduction to this complex and central theme. 25x19 cm, illustrated, 400 pages.
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Guantanamo
Rose, David
Camp Delta at Guantánamo Bay is the most controversial prison in the world.
The 600 detainees in Cuba have been held in a legal black hole. Are they 'the hardest of the hard-core' Al Qaeda terrorists, ruthless men 'involved in a plot to kill thousands of ordinary Americans', as the Bush administration has maintained? And has their continued imprisonment really been a necessary weapon in the war against terror, preventing further murders and providing an invaluable trove of intelligence?
In pursuit of the answers, David Rose has visited the camp and interviewed guards, officials and medical staff, as well as the prison commander. In a detailed investigation of the claims of the British detainees released early in 2004, he describes a suffocating atmosphere of isolation, harrassment, Kafkaesque accusation and physical brutality. Through this series of compelling and disturbing insights into the operations at Guantánamo - and set in the context of centuries of civilized thought about the treatment of prisoners - we come to understand that the first thing to go in the War on Terror will be human rights. 20x13cm, 168 pages.
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American Life: A Social History
Macmillan
Social history can be described as a chronicle of the fabric of ordinary existence - sometimes minute and subtle, occasionally rapid and momentous. American Life features articles about family, home, everyday life, popular thought, and recreation. Table of Contents:
ADOLESCENCE: Chesapeake Migrants - Young Women in Slavery - Adolescent Morality
AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC: A Variety of Instruments - African American Secular Music - Gospel Performance -
James Brown and Aretha Franklin.
AMUSEMENT AND THEME PARKS: The Roller Coaster and Carousel.
CHILDHOOD AND CHILDREN: Native American Children - Nineteenth Century Schools - John B. Watson.
THE CITY: The Public Health Movement - City Government - Chart: Population of Leading U.S. Cities .
CLOTHING AND PERSONAL ADORNMENT: Eighteenth Century Hairstyles - Female Attractiveness in the Nineteenth Century -
The Cultivation of Beauty.
COMMERCIAL ARCHITECTURE: The Sun Building - The 1893 Columbian Exposition - The Evolution of the Shopping Mall.
COMMUNICATIONS
AND INFORMATION PROCESSING.
CONCERT MUSIC: Early Twentieth Century Concert music - The Birth of "Bebop".
COUNTRY AND WESTERN MUSIC: Minnie Pearl - Nashville.
COURTSHIP, MARRIAGE, SEPERATION, AND DIVORCE: Bundling - The "New" Morality - "No-Fault" divorce.
DEATH: Death of Children - The Mortality Gap - Funeral Practices in the Twentieth Century.
FILM: Nickelodeons - The Birth of a Nation - The Depression - Inquisition and Blacklist.
FOLK SONG AND FOLK MUSIC: Broadsides - Governmental Institutions and Folk Song Study.
FOODWAYS: Thomas Jefferson - Food Reformers - Scientific Housekeeping.
FRATERNAL ORGANISATIONS: Fraternalism as Entertainment.
THE FRONTIER: The First Americans - Whiskey Rebellion.
HEALTH CARE: Public Medical lnstitutions in the Nineteenth Century.
HOUSING: "Hall Parlor" Houses - Climate and Housing Design - The First Suburbs.
HUMOR AND COMEDY: Joel Chandler Harris - H. L. Mencken.
JOURNALISM: Broadsides and Magazines - The Ethnic Press - The Rural Press - Censorship of the Press.
LANDSCAPES: The Forest Primeval.
MANNERS AND ETIQUETTE: Rank and Status in the New World - The Laws of Etiquette - Women in the Workplace.
NATIONAL PARKS AND PRESERVATION: Ecological Perspectives.
NIGHTLIFE: Dance Halls, Cabarets, and Nightclubs.
OLD AGE: Improvements in Longevity - Old Age and the Law.
PARADES, HOLIDAYS, AND PUBLIC RITUALS: Mother's Day and Other Holidays - "Harlem Is Also a Paradise Ground".
THE PLANTATION: "King Cotton".
POPULAR ENTERTAINMENT BEFORE CIVIL WAR: Puritan Entertainments in the Eighteenth Century - Entertainments in Rural
Communities.
POPULAR LITERATURE: The Age of Cheap Fiction - Popular Trash - The Paperback Revolution.
POPULAR MUSIC BEFORE 1950: A Joyful Noise vs. an "Odd Noise".
PRINT AND PUBLISHING: Literacy in the Colonies - The Cause of "Useful Knowledge" - African -American Literacy -
Ethnic Publishing in the Nineteenth Century - "The Best Reading".
PUBLIC ARCHITECTURE: County Courthouse.
RADIO: The Distance Fiend - The Voice of America - Radio and Rock 'n' Roll.
ROCK MUSIC: Rock and Roll - The Mirror of Society - Punk Rock - Contemporary Rock and the
African American Express.
SEXUAL BEHAVIOR AND MORALITY: Sex and Reproduction - Native American Sexual Customs -
Free Love - Pornography and Prostitution - The Fight for Reproductive Freedom - The Stonewall Riot.
SPORTS THROUGH THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: Morton vs. Bradford - The Birth of Baseball -
The 'Y' Movement.
SPORTS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: Modern Sports - Collegiate and Professional Football.
THE SUBURBS: The Birth of the Suburb - Origins of Suburban Government - A Postsuburban Era?
TELEVISION: Sponsors - Television and Politics - Television News in the 1960s.
THEATER AND MUSICAL THEATER: Pamphlet Plays - John Howard Payne - The Shuberts, Belasco, and the Fiskes -
The Living Newspaper.
TRANSPORTATION AND MOBILITY: The Way West.
TRAVEL AND VACATIONS: Summer Camps - National Tourism - International Tourism.
URBAN CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS: Literature and Enlightement - History and Science - Art in the Twentieth Century.
URBAN PARKS: The People's Park.
VILLAGE AND TOWN: The Pioneer Village - The Facade of the Small Town.
WOMAN'S ORGANIZATIONS: The Women's Christian Temperance Union. 29x23 cm, illustrated, 642 pages.
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When a Crocodile Eats the Sun
Godwin, Peter
Peter Godwin, an award-winning writer, is on assignment in Zululand when he is summoned by his mother to Zimbabwe, his birthplace. His father is seriously ill; she fears he is dying. Godwin finds his country, once a post-colonial success story, descending into a vortex of violence and racial hatred. His father recovers, but over the next few years Godwin travels regularly between his family life in Manhattan and the increasing chaos of Zimbabwe, with its rampant inflation and land seizures making famine a very real prospect. It is against this backdrop that Godwin discovers a fifty-year-old family secret, one which changes everything he thought he knew about his father, and his own place in the world. Peter Godwin's book combines vivid reportage, moving personal stories and revealing memoir, and traces his family's quest to belong in hostile lands a quest that spans three continents and half a century. "Heartbreaking ...Godwin plainly loves Africa, and he captures the baffling wayward contradictions of its people, their cruelties and unexpected kindnesses, their nobility of spirit in the face of appalling conditions, with humour and grace" - "Daily Mail". "A wonderful book ...beautifully written, packed with insight and free of rancour" - "Literary Review". 20x13cm, illustrated, 342 pages.
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My Ear at His Heart
Kureishi, Hanif
Hanif Kureishi offers a remarkable insight into the birth of a writer - himself - through this memoir that conjures up a family story of how he found his own literary calling from the ashes of his father's failed attempts in the past. The wellspring of the memoir is Kureishi's discovery of an abandoned manuscript that recounts his father's childhood in Bombay as the world turns upside down and India splits in two along religious lines: thus a family that had lived in India for generations now had to accept a Pakistani identity. And so begins a journey which takes Kureishi through his father's privileged childhood by the sea in Bombay to his adult life hidden away in the suburbs of Bromley - his days spent as a minor functionary in the Pakistan embassy in London, his nights writing prose, hopeful of one day receiving literary recognition... 22x14cm, illustrated, 198 pages.
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Dreams From My Father
Obama, Barack
The son of a black African father and a white American mother, Obama was only two years old when his father walked out on the family. Many years later, Obama receives a phone call from Nairobi: his father is dead. This sudden news inspires an emotional odyssey for Obama, determined to learn the truth of his father's life and reconcile his divided inheritance. Written at the age of thirty-three, Dreams from my Father is an unforgettable read. it illuminates not only Obama's journey, but also our universal desire to understand our history, and what makes us the people we are. 18x11cm, 442 pages.
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Infidel
Ali, Ayaan Hirsi
In this profoundly affecting memoir, the internationally renowned political superstar and intrepid activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali tells her astonishing life story, from her traditional Muslim childhood in Somalia to her intellectual awakening in the Netherlands, to her life under armed guard in the West. Ayaan Hirsi Ali is one of today's most admired and controversial political figures. She burst into international headlines following the 2004 murder by an Islamist of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, who was left in an Amsterdam street with a letter pinned to his chest that promised that Hirsi Ali, the screenwriter on Van Gogh's film Submission, would be killed next. Eagerly awaited, Infidel shows the coming of age of this elegant, distinguished — and sometimes reviled — champion of free speech, and gives the absorbing back story to how she developed her beliefs, iron will, and her extraordinary determination to fight injustice done in the name of religion and change the world for the better. Raised in a strict Muslim family and extended clan, Hirsi Ali survived civil war, female circumcision, brutal beatings, the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood, and life in four countries under dictatorships. She escaped from a forced marriage and in 1992 sought asylum in the Netherlands, where she fought for the rights of Muslim women and the reform of Islam, earning her the enmity of reactionary Islamists and craven politicians. Under constant threat, she refuses to be silenced. Ultimately a celebration of triumph over adversity, Hirsi Ali's story tells how a bright, curious, dutiful little girl evolves into a pioneering freedom fighter, a woman who has put her life on the line to work for women's rights and an enlightened Islam and as a result has won numerous humanitarian awards.
20x13cm, , illustrated, 353 pages.
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The Wines of Austria
Blom, Philipp
A recent and renewed interest in Austrian wines has seen them beginning to appear on the lists of serious wine merchants. This book looks at the history of Austrian wines from early Austrian wine culture to the recent explosion of experimentation, investment and innovation. The reader is introduced to the main wine-growing areas, their landscape and the wines they produce. For each region the author lists the top growers, whose wines are representative of the best in Austria. He explores these estates and their wine-makers in fascinating detail and includes some of his own wine recommendations.
"The bandwagon to jump aboard for fine white wines ... is undoubtedly that labelled Austria. This is where connoisseurs can find elegance, fruit and complexity." Jancis Robinson, Financial Times.Philipp Blom was first introduced to Austrian wines in the early nineties whilst studying in Vienna, and since then they have become something close to an obsession for him. In this book he presents a persuasive case for these stunning wines, already discovered by collectors in the USA and soon to be asserting themselves on the international stage. As far as Philipp Blom is concerned, Austrian wines are the wine world's best-kept secret. Contents:
AUSTRIAN WINE PAST AND PRESENT:
Culture and History --- From the Celts to the Romans, Migrations and monks, Sweet wines and bitter wars,Connoisseurs and scholars, The glorious revolution of 1985, The face of Austrian wine culture today.
What Makes an Austrian Wine?--- Regional styles in brief , Legal framework. Grape Varieties --- White grapes,Red grapes.
AUSTRIAN WINE-GROWING AREAS AND GROWERS:
Burgenland --- Area profile Neusiedlersee, Top growers by the Neusiedlersee, Neusiedlersee-Hügelland,Top growers in Neusiedlersee- Hügelland, Middle Burgenland,Top growers in Middle Burgenland,South Burgenland, Top growers in South Burgenland. Weinviertel --- Area profile, Top growers. Thermenregion --- Area profile, Top growers. Carnuntum --- Area profile, Top growers. Donauland --- Area profile, Top growers. Traisental --- Area profile, Top growers. Styria --- Area profile. South Styria, Top growers in South Styria.
South-East Styria --- Top growers in South-East Styria. West Styria --- Top growers in West Styria. Vienna --- Area profile, Top growers.
Wachau --- Area profile, Top growers. Kamptal ---Area profile, Top growers. Kremstal --- Area profile, Top growers.
MAPS: WINE-GROWING AREAS OF AUSTRIA:
Neusiedlersee and Neusiedlersee Hügelland, Middle and South Burgenland, Weinviertel,
Thermenregion and Carnuntum, Traisental and Donauland, South Styria, West and East Styria,
Vienna, Wachau, Kamptal, Kremstal. 22x14cm, illustrated, 222 pages.
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Picture prompts (Elementary - Intermediate) - Photocopiable Timesavers
Berwick, Gwen - Sydney Thorne
Photocopiable Timesavers ist eine Reihe mit einfach handhabbaren, in der Praxis erprobten Arbeitsblättern zum Kopieren für die Sekundarstufe 1. Hintergrundinformationen und Lösungen sowie eine Inhaltsübersicht, in der die Arbeitsblätter nach Schwierigkeitsgraden und sprachlichen Schwerpunkten geordnet sind, lassen die Aktivitäten sicher gelingen!
Picture prompts (Elementary - Intermediate)
Sorgfältig ausgewählte Illustrationen regen fünf verschiedene, leicht einsetzbare Aktivitäten und Übungstypen an: grammar points, stories and situations, opinions and imagination, pair and group work und vocabulary practice. Die optisch ansprechenden Kopiervorlagen behandeln durchwegs Themengebiete, die Teenager wirklich interessieren, wie z. B. Designer clothes, A school for wizards, Formula I u. v. a. m. Spiralgebunden, 96 Seiten.
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Vocabulary Activities (Elementary) - Photocopiable Timesavers
Finnie,Sue - Bourdais, Janièle
Photocopiable Timesavers ist eine Reihe mit einfach handhabbaren, in der Praxis erprobten Arbeitsblättern zum Kopieren für die Sekundarstufe 1. Hintergrundinformationen und Lösungen sowie eine Inhaltsübersicht, in der die Arbeitsblätter nach Schwierigkeitsgraden und sprachlichen Schwerpunkten geordnet sind, lassen die Aktivitäten sicher gelingen!
Vocabulary Activities bieten Spiel und Spaß zum Vokabeltraining. Die wichtigsten Bereiche wie Person, Day to Day, The World around us, Having fun oder Holidays and special days werden abgedeckt und die Vokabel in spielerischer Form näher gebracht. Spiralgebunden, 96 Seiten.
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Innovations - Advanced (Coursebook with 2 Audio CDs and Workbook)
Dellar,Hugh; Walkley, Andrew
Innovation Advanced. (Coursebook with 2 Audio CDs and Workbook). Coursebook contains 24 stimulating 4-page units, 4 review units, 12 units devoted to different genres of writing (including relevance to the Cambridge Advanced exam), grammar commentary and tapescript.
Audio CDs enhance Coursebook lessons through listening comprehension exercises.
Innovations is a new five-level general English course for classes looking for new material with a fresh approach. Based on a language-rich, lexical/grammatical syllabus, it starts from the kinds of natural conversations that learners want to have.
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Academic Vocabulary in Use - with answers
McCarthy Michael, O'Dell Felicity
50 units of academic vocabulary reference and practice. Self-study and classroom use. Academic Vocabulary in Use is the perfect study aid for anyone using English for their academic work. Ideal for students of any discipline, from engineers or social scientists to business students or lawyers, it covers all the key vocabulary they will come across in academic textbooks, articles, lectures and seminars, allowing them to function confidently in an English-speaking academic environment. The book is designed for students at good intermediate level and above as well as those preparing for IELTS and other university entrance examinations. 26x20cm, 176 pages.
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Cross-curricular English Activities - Photocopiable Timesavers
Birdsall, Melanie
Photocopiable Timesavers ist eine Reihe mit einfach handhabbaren, in der Praxis erprobten Arbeitsblättern zum Kopieren für die Sekundarstufe 1. Hintergrundinformationen und Lösungen sowie eine Inhaltsübersicht, in der die Arbeitsblätter nach Schwierigkeitsgraden und sprachlichen Schwerpunkten geordnet sind, lassen die Aktivitäten sicher gelingen!
Cross-Curricular English Activities rundet das Angebot aus dieser Reihe mit attraktiven Aufgabenstellungen aus den Bereichen Mathematik, Naturwissenschaften, Geschichte und Geographie ab. Spiralgebunden, 96 Seiten.
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English Grammar in Use - Intermediate to Upper Intermediate / Edition with answers , pullout grammar and CD-ROM
Murphy, Raymond
English Grammar in Use - Third Edition. Intermediate to Upper Intermediate / Edition with answers , pullout grammar and CD-ROM
A self-study reference and practice book for intermediate students of English.
27x20cm, illustrated & CD-ROM, 379 pages.
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Holidays and Special Days in the USA - Photocopiable Timesavers
Myles, Jane
Photocopiable Timesavers ist eine Reihe mit einfach handhabbaren, in der Praxis erprobten Arbeitsblättern zum Kopieren für die Sekundarstufe 1. Hintergrundinformationen und Lösungen sowie eine Inhaltsübersicht, in der die Arbeitsblätter nach Schwierigkeitsgraden und sprachlichen Schwerpunkten geordnet sind, lassen die Aktivitäten sicher gelingen!
Der Band Holidays and Special Days in the USA beinhaltet alle wichtigen Feiertage und Festlichkeiten in den USA. Mit Hilfe von ansprechenden Illustrationen werden geschichtliche und kulturelle Besonderheiten erläutert und interessierten Schülerinnen und Schülern näher gebracht: Wer feiert zum Beispiel Trick-or-Treat? Was wird am Thanksgiving Day aufgetischt oder wie lautet das Rezept für den typischen Muttertagskuchen, den Carrot Cake?
Spiralgebunden, 96 Seiten.
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Phrasal Verbs & Idioms (Elementary - Advanced) - Photocopiable Timesavers
Scholastic
Photocopiable Timesavers ist eine Reihe mit einfach handhabbaren, in der Praxis erprobten Arbeitsblättern zum Kopieren für die Sekundarstufe 1. Hintergrundinformationen und Lösungen sowie eine Inhaltsübersicht, in der die Arbeitsblätter nach Schwierigkeitsgraden und sprachlichen Schwerpunkten geordnet sind, lassen die Aktivitäten sicher gelingen!
Phrasal Verbs & Idioms (Pre-intermediate - Advanced)
Was wäre Englisch ohne Phrasal Verbs und Idioms? So lernen Ihre Schüler/innen spielerisch den Unterschied zwischen "take away", "take off" und "take after" und werden nie wieder glauben, dass "to lend someone a hand" "jemandem eine Hand borgen" bedeutet. Spiralgebunden, 80 Seiten.
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The Ghosts of Izieu (Book & Audiocassette)
Watson, James
This pack contains the book and one cassette.
Book & Audiocassette in Easy English: Pre-Intermediate Level (1200 words). The Audiocassette includes the complete text as printed in the book, excluding the Activities pages.
The Ghosts of Izieu is a classic ghost story set in modern France.
Elise is a young English girl on holiday in France, with her father and stepmother. Elise resents her father's new wife and is bored in the hot, dusty French village. Her father is keen for her to share his interest, in local history She, however, is reluctant, until she becomes a part of it herself. She begins to see the ghosts of children who seem to be from another time. She meets the mysterious Stefan who appears strangely afraid of something in the town.
When she seeks refuge from the summer heat in the cold village church, she is hurled back in time and meets a group of Jewish refugee children, who are in hiding from the Gestapo. The children call her 'Eloise'. She realises that she must leave the children in order to return to her own time and regain her own identity. The village's war memorial reveals to her, upon her return, the horrible fate with which the children met. The experience makes her reassess her relationship with her father and stepmother, and she determines to try harder to make it succeed. She is also able to appreciate fully the importance of remembering those who died in the Holocaust. Background and Themes:
The Ghosts of Izieu combines the two themes of the Holocaust and the supernatural. The ghosts in question are of a group of Jewish children persecuted in the 1940's. At the heart of the story is the moral message that it is important to remember the Holocaust, so that it will not be repeated. The young girl at the centre of the story becomes more aware of this as the plot develops. Her father's stories about the horrors of the deportations and concentration camps seem very abstract until she meets the ghosts and shares their terror. On a broader level the story is a reminder of how intolerance and racism can eventually lead to atrocities, such as the murder of the children in the book. 20x13cm, illustrated in full colour, 42 pages &
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Practical English Usage
Swan, Michael
Thoroughly revised following extensive research with current users of the book.
New features make it easier for users to find their way around the book.
All the most popular entries are retained, but almost all the entries have been modified to make them clearer and more effective in solving readers' problems.
Explanations and examples now based on current corpus research.
New entries on 'Kinds of English', covering standard English and dialects, correctness, spoken and written English, formality, and variation and change.
The world's most trusted guide to problems in English - now in a new edition. 23x16cm, 653 pages.
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Personality Quizzes (Elementary - Intermediate) - Photocopiable Timesavers
Lambert Viv (ed.)
Photocopiable Timesavers ist eine Reihe mit einfach handhabbaren, in der Praxis erprobten Arbeitsblättern zum Kopieren für die Sekundarstufe 1. Hintergrundinformationen und Lösungen sowie eine Inhaltsübersicht, in der die Arbeitsblätter nach Schwierigkeitsgraden und sprachlichen Schwerpunkten geordnet sind, lassen die Aktivitäten sicher gelingen!
Personality quizzes (Elementary - Intermediate)
Ein nicht wegzudenkender Teil jedes Teenagermagazins weltweit ist der Persönlichkeitstest. In diesem Buch finden Sie 50 Persönlichkeitstests. Die Tests sind ansprechend illustriert und motivieren dadurch, dass sie sich auf die Interessen der Teenager konzentrieren: "Are you a good friend?", "How fit are you?" "Are you a shopaholic?". Spiralgebunden, 80 Seiten.
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Oxford Dictionary of Slang
Ayto, John
Here, John Ayto has brought together over 10,000 slang words and phrases common to 20th-century English, to provide a comprehensive and highly engaging guide to the most outspoken corner of our language. Unlike most such dictionaries, this volume is organized thematically, with slang words
gathered under such headings as "the body and its functions" or "sustenance and intoxication." Within each section, the words are listed chronologically, starting with the century's earliest words and phrases and progressing right through to the present day, thus illuminating the development of
slang and colloquial language over the last hundred years. Word origins and other interesting features of usage are given wherever possible, as are illustrative quotations from a wide range of authors. A comprehensive A-Z index lists all words included in the dictionary, so you can find a particular
word quickly. From "five-finger discount" to "forty-rod whiskey," this is an authoritative and up-to-date record of slang throughout the English-speaking world. 20x13cm, 480 pages.
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A Practical English Grammar
Thomson, A. J., Martinet, A.V.
A classic intermediate grammar for foreign learners. This new edition has been revised and updated and is now even more informative and easier to use. 22x14cm, 383 pages.
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Oxford Learner's Thesaurus & CD -ROM (A dictionary of synonyms)
Lea, Diana
A synonyms dictionary written especially for learners. It groups words with similar meanings and explains the differences between them. Over 17,000 synonyms and opposites from written and spoken English.
CD-ROM with access to the complete Thesaurus and over 250 practice exercises.
9-page Thesaurus Trainer to help you make the most of your Thesaurus.
16 Study Pages focusing on topics and exam-style questions.
Illustrated Topic Maps with exercises to help build vocabulary.
A-Z Index and Topic Index make it easy to find any word in the Thesaurus. Use the Oxford Learners' Thesaurus to choose exactly the right word:
Use the 4,000 notes to identify the exact difference between pairs of synonyms.
See which words are used most frequently and choose the most appropriate.
Choose the words that are right for the context: formal/informal, written/spoken, approving/disapproving.
Understand which words go together and use them correctly. 23x16cm, 1015 pages with CD-ROM.
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Plays - Photocopiable Timesavers
Myles, Jane
Timesaver Plays: Ready-made drama scenes and activities for the classroom is a collection of 12 short photocopiable plays for intermediate level secondary students. The plays present situations and problems which are relevant to young people including themes of friendship, school and love.
Each play ends in a moral dilemma. Students have to discuss and choose from three different possible endings, or invent their own. There are also comprehension exercises and follow-up language actitivities.
Teacher's notes suggest ways to develop the drama potential of the plays in the classroom.Spiralbound, 80 pages.
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Doyle, Roddy
A novel of mothers lost and found, Wilderness is part roaring adventure, part family drama - with a charm that's all Roddy Doyle's. While Tom and Johnny are on a husky safari in Finland, their half-sister Grainne stays behind to face the mother who abandoned her. But Tom and Johnny are too caught up in their adventure to think of home - until they find themselves lost in the snow, in a desperate struggle for survival...
20x13cm, 220 pages.
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Far From The Madding Crowd
Hardy, Thomas
Book in Easy English - Intermediate - 1650 headwords. Bathsheba Everdene is a beautiful young woman. Three men say they love her but she marries the wrong one. This tragic story takes place in the beautiful countryside of the south of England. One of a series designed as an introduction to literature. It is graded into six levels, and each book contains an introduction and exercises. It is designed for students of English as a foreign or as a second language, and for reluctant readers. 20x13 cm, illustrated, 60 pages.
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Kim: Empty Inside (The Diary of an Anonymous Teenager)
Sparks, Beatrice (Editor of "Go Ask Alice")
When Kim can't handle things, she eats. Then she purges. Sometimes she fasts. She knows she isn't as thin as the other girls on her gymnastics team, and she's worried that now, away from home for the first time as a college freshman, she won't be able to live up to expectations - especially her own. Eating is the one thing she can control - or can she? 17x10cm, 165 pages.
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Small Steps
Sachar, Louis
A brilliant companion volume to mega bestseller "HOLES".
Armpit and X-Ray are living in Austin, Texas. It is three years since they left the confines of Camp Green Lake Detention Centre and Armpit is taking small steps to turn his life around. He is working for a landscape gardener because he is good at digging holes, he is going to school and he is enjoying his first proper romance, but is he going to be able to stay out of trouble when there is so much building up against him?
In this brilliantly plotted and exciting novel, Armpit is joined by many vibrant new characters, and is learning what it takes to stay on course, and that doing the right thing is never the wrong choice. 20x14cm, 257 pages.
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A Child Called "It"
Pelzer, Dave
The life-enhancing true story of a young boy's struggle to free himself from his abusive mother and find a family to love him.
Dave Pelzer was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother, a mother who played tortuous, unpredictable games - games that left one of her three sons nearly dead. She no longer considered Dave a son, but a slave; no longer a boy, but an 'it'. His bed was an old army cot in the basement, his clothes were torn and smelly, and when he was allowed the luxury of food it was scraps from the dog's bowl. The outside world knew nothing of the nightmare played out behind closed doors. But throughout Dave kept alive dreams of finding a family to love him. This book covers the early years of his life and is an affecting an inspirational book of the horrors of child abuse and the steadfast determination of one child to survive. 'Dave Pelzer conveys brilliantly how his own determination allowed him to keep alive his dream of one day find a family who would be proud to call him their son. Truly touching, and emotionally shocking. 18x11cm,128 pages.
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Finding Katie (The Diary Of Anonymous, A Teenager In Foster Care)
Sparks, Beatrice (Editor of "Go Ask Alice")
Katie is always surrounded by wealth, but feels terribly alone because of the secret horror of her angry, abusive father. When she's thrown out of her house and put into foster care, it seems like the end of the world. But as she moves through the foster care system, she begins to realize that she can help others. Can she, at last, find courage and strength of her own? 17x10cm, 181 pages.
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Ten Things I Hate About Me
Abdel-Fattah, Randa
“At school I’m Aussie-blond Jamie – one of the crowd. At home I’m Muslim Jamilah – driven mad by my Stone Age dad. I should win an Oscar for my acting. But how long can I keep it up?”
Jamie wants to be the real thing, right down from the roots of her dyed-blonde hair. But there lots of things that Jamie hates about her life: her black hair, her stuffy old dad, and her real name – Jamilah Towfeek. Most of all, she hates herself for hiding her Lebanese-Muslim background from friends at school. The only person she can confide in is the anonymous boy she chats to online. But now the best-looking boy in her class wants to date her. Her dad will never allow it, and her double life can’t be a secret much longer. Who will find true love – Jamie or Jamilah? Funny, topical and heart-wrenching, this is a moving and richly believable story of family loyalty, identity and finding oneself. 20x13cm,305 pages.
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Witch Child
Rees, Celia
When Mary sees her grandmother accused of witchcraft and hung for the crime, she is silently hurried to safety by an unknown woman. The woman gives her tools to keep the record of her days - paper and ink. Mary is taken to a boat in Plymouth and from there sails to the New World where she hopes to make a new life among the pilgrims. But old superstitions die hard and soon Mary finds that she, like her grandmother, is the victim of ignorance and stupidity and once more she finds herself having to make important choices to ensure her survival. With a vividly evoked environment and characters skilfully and patiently drawn this is a powerful literary achievement by Celia Rees, that is utterly engrossing from start to finish. 20x13 cm, 234 pages.
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She Said Yes - The Unlikely Martyrdom of Cassie Bernall
Bernall, Misty
In this bestseller that grabbed national media attention, the mother of a Columbine High School student speaks with honesty as she describes how her once-troubled daughter, Cassie, found God and straightened out her life, and professed her faith before she was killed in the school shooting. Contains a new Introduction by the author and an Afterword by Michael W. Smith.
17x11cm, illustrated, 163 pages.
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Everything Beautiful
Howell, Simmone
She annoyed Norma so much she was sent away to summer camp. But Riley isn’t going down without a fight ...
When Riley’s Dad gets a new girlfriend, life turns upside down for Riley. She doesn’t like Norma and Norma doesn’t like her. But it is not until Riley finds herself shipped off to ‘camp’ that she realises just how bad things have become.
Determined to continue on her path of bad behaviour and general obnoxiousness, Riley Rose is sure that she can turn this ‘spiritual camp’ upside down. And when she meets Dylan Luck, recent paraplegic, she thinks she has found a fellow troublemaker.
What follows is a very surprising week for Riley. Truths are told and secrets revealed, and sex, cigarettes and booze prove to be a potent cocktail, but in the end Riley has learnt quite a lot about herself, Dylan and exactly why she appeared hell-bent on self-destruction.
20x13cm, 288 pages.
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Gangsta Rap
Zephaniah, Benjamin
Ray has trouble at home and trouble at school. It's the last straw for everyone when Ray and his friends Prem and Tyrone are permanently suspended. But they know what they want, more than most, perhaps. Their headmaster decides to give them a second chance, a chance to live their dream of forming a rap group. Through a specialized social program, the boys are taught the business of the music industry, what it takes to record an album, and how to lay down a track. Within weeks they have become the Positive Negatives, and within a few months they have signed a record deal and are on their way to the top. But their dream soon becomes a nightmare as violence escalates around them. Suddenly, not only their careers but their very lives are at stake. The Positive Negatives are determined to prove that you don't need to be a gangster to be a great rapper. 20x13cm, 332 pages.
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Speedy Stories in Just 366 Words
Ian Whybrow, Georgia Byng, Roddy Doyle, Jeremy Strong
This is a unique anthology crammed with fantastic stories, each told in just 366 words, from some of the top authors in children's fiction. That's as many words as there are days in this leap year! In this work, the contributors include Roddy Doyle, Michael Morpurgo, Charlie Higson, Anne Fine, Jeremy Strong, Nina Bawden, Ian Whybrow, Paul Stewart, Michael Bond, and Tom Fletcher from McFly .
20x13cm, 520 pages.
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Living at the Edge of the World: How I Survived in the Tunnels of Grand Central Station
Bolnick, Jamie Pastor
When Tina S. meets April, a teenage runaway, she thinks she's found her best friend. She leaves behind her dysfunctional family to join April in the tunnels of New York's Grand Central Station amidst the homeless and drug addicted. Soon she's bingeing on crack - just like April - and stealing, scamming, and panhandling to support her habit and to survive on the streets. Tina tells the story of her four years in the strange netherworld of Grand Central Station: her descent into crack addiction, being raped in the tunnels, her several arrests and jail terms, and her grief and guilt over the death of April. Finally faced with the reality that she might not make it through one more day, Tina takes her first difficult steps toward a normal life. 23x15 cm, 283 pages.
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Refugee Boy
Zephaniah, Benjamin
Alem's father is Ethiopian but his mother is Eritrean.
When these countries go to war, his parents are seen as traitors by both sides. Arriving in London
as a refugee, Alem wakes up next morning to discover his father has returned to Africa to try and
help end the civil war. Entirely on his own, Alem is sent to a children's home, but when this proves
too tough he is placed with foster parents and starts attending school. He then learns that his mother
has been killed and that he may be expelled from Britain because of problems with his application to
seek asylum. But at least Alem is reunited with his father, over in Britain again. When local people bear
that father and son may be deported they put on a Freedom Dance to raise funds tor their appeal.Things
seem to be going well, but more troubles are on the way. Much of this novel is taken up with the actual
details of what currently happens to people seeking asylum in Britain. Alem's view of Britain as an outsider
is always fascinating and sometimes even comic. The other asylum seekers he meets all have their own,
frequently tragic stories to tell, but althought the book is often unavoidably sad, it is still in many ways a
feel-good story. Alem is the sort of positive character who brings out the best in others as well as in himself.
To read this novel is to become better informed about a controversial topic where there are no easy answers.
20x13 cm, 224 pages.
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Votes for Women
Hollyer, Belinda
Using the alternating perspectives of two key players, Sylvia Pankhurst and Herbert Asquith, Belinda Hollyer brings this vividly to life through the passions and conflicts of real historical figures. It is a gripping story of a remarkable triumph of courage and determination over strenuous, often violent, opposition. The story begins before the First World War with the militant years of hunger strikes, force-feeding, and the cat-and-mouse tactics of the suffragette leaders.... 20x13 cm, illustrated, 160 pages.
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Plants (Interfact Series) & CD-Rom
Two-can
Book in easy English - intermediate. The book and disk that work together - combines all the values of high-quality illustrated books with the dramatic interactivity of imaginative multimedia.
Multimedia disk containing up to 15 hours of activities, games and on-screen adverntures presented as fully interactive features
48-page book with detailed facts, stunning photographs, illustrations and a glossary and index. Spiralbound, 22x18 cm,
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Ladybird
The fairytale of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs features an evil witch and a handsome prince. 18x12cm, illustrated, 32 pages.
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Spot Goes to School
Hill, Eric
Spot's first day at school with Miss Bear and all his fellow students is great fun, as he gets to make a word, paint a picture, sing a song and play with his new friends. More pop-up fun with the cute little puppy all children love. Bright colours and large print. 20x20cm, 24 pages.
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Solar System (Interfact Series) & CD-Rom
Two-Can
Book in easy English - intermediate. The book and disk that work together - combines all the values of high-quality illustrated books with the dramatic interactivity of imaginative multimedia.
Multimedia disk containing up to 15 hours of activities, games and on-screen adverntures presented as fully interactive features
48-page book with detailed facts, stunning photographs, illustrations and a glossary and index. Spiralbound, 22x18 cm,
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he Boy and the Tiger and other stories for 9-11 year olds (Book&CD)
Corbett, Pie
Don’t just read – read aloud! With a treasure-trove of favourite tales, each accompanied by an audio retelling from a professional storyteller, this book gives children the perfect opportunity to read aloud, listen along, follow text, read together and do all the things they need to build their literacy skills! They’ll meet tigers, giants and much more in this captivating collection, which comes with an audio CD. 20x13cm, illustrated,144 pages.
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Winnie the Witch & CD
Thomas, Valerie and Paul, Korky
Winnie lived in her black house with her cat, Wilbur. He was black too. And that is how the trouble began. Everything in Winnies house is black—the carpet, the chairs, the bed and the sheets, the pictures on the walls, and even the bathtub! And of course her cat, Wilbur, is black too—all except for his bright-green eyes. Whenever poor Wilbur closes his eyes and tries to take a catnap, Winnie stumbles right over him. Or accidentally sits on top of him. Until one day, when Winnie gets a brilliant idea. What if Wilbur were a different color? 28x23cm, illustrated, 32 pages& CD.
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Rumpelstiltskin
Grimm, Jacob
Once upon a time, there was a miller who was forever telling stories. He would boast about his daughter to anyone who would listen and each story became more and more extravagant. His neighbours just laughed, but one day the king was in town and he didn't laugh. He took the miller very seriously. 18x12cm, illustrated, 32 pages.
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Dragonory and other stories for 7-9 year olds (Book&CD)
Corbett, Pie
Don’t just read – read aloud! With a treasure-trove of favourite tales, each accompanied by an audio retelling from a professional storyteller, this book gives children the perfect opportunity to read aloud, listen along, follow text, read together and do all the things they need to build their literacy skills! They’ll meet dragons, monsters and much more in this captivating collection, which comes with an audio CD. 20x13cm, illustrated, 160 pages.
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Winnie The Witch
Thomas, Valerie and Paul, Korky
Winnie lived in her black house with her cat, Wilbur. He was black too. And that is how the trouble began.
Everything in Winnies house is black—the carpet, the chairs, the bed and the sheets, the pictures on the walls, and even the bathtub! And of course her cat, Wilbur, is black too—all except for his bright-green eyes. Whenever poor Wilbur closes his eyes and tries to take a catnap, Winnie stumbles right over him. Or accidentally sits on top of him. Until one day, when Winnie gets a brilliant idea. What if Wilbur were a different color? 28x23cm, illustrated, 32 pages.
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The Picture of Dorian Gray (The Whole Story)
Wilde, Oscar
A novel that has fascinated readers for over a century, The Picture of Dorian Gray is Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who attains eternal youth while only his portrait grows old, hidden away in a locked room. Despite the young man's disintegration into a life of crime, his face never reflects the moral decay. Instead, the portrait records every deed by turning his once handsome features into a hideous mask.
With Tony Ross's splendid illustrations and extended captions unique to the Whole Story, The Picture of Dorian Gray provides background information that modern readers could otherwise access only through a broad range of supplemental research-from biographical profiles of Oscar Wilde and his contemporaries to depictions of London's art world in the late nineteenth century. This distinctive approach places The Picture of Dorian Gray, first published in 1891, within the context of its era, bringing it vividly to life. THE READER
BECOMES AN EXPLORER-FICTION BECOMES DISCOVERY.
The world's best-loved stories brought to life in the full context of their eras: The Whole Story series, with its unique documentary approach, makes the classics accessible to new generations of readers-as well as to audiences wanting to reread, rediscover, and newly appreciate these enduringly popular stories.
Complete, unabridged text as originally published.
Generously annotated with hundreds of extended captions: lively, succinct explanations of history, geography, popular culture, social customs, the animal world, architecture, literature, and science.
Lavishly illustrated in color and black and white, featuring line drawings, maps, photographs, diagrams, and paintings, many of which date from when the story was written.
24x18cm, illstrated, 270 pages.
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Pragmatics and Discourse - A Resource Book for Students
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Pride and Prejudice
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Hamlet
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Skyjack! (Oxford Bookworms Audio CD Pack)
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The Kabul Beauty School
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The Withered Arm (Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 Audio CD Pack )
Hardy, Thomas
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A Treasury of Love Poems
Blue Heron Books
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Lord Jim
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Just a Little Run Around the World
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